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This gathering of the living and the dead and the vows of vengeance have become a weekly ritual for Iranian families since the conflict with neighboring Iraq began to reap its harvest of victims, estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000. The graves at Behesht-e Zahra are tightly packed, sometimes no more than 6 in. apart, and they are advancing rapidly in tree-lined squares toward the perimeter of the 1.5-sq.-mi. cemetery. Aluminum-and-glass display cases contain photographs of the dead, many of them teenagers, along with family heirlooms. Most also bear a picture...
...summit meeting is in part a public ceremony of reassurance, an international soothing. To many, the ritual seemed past due. The U.S. and the Soviet Union, the great apes of the nuclear age, had not ascended to the summit since 1979. The superpowers used the intervening years to build their nuclear stockpiles and menace each other, glowering across a distance. The rest of the world skittishly watched...
...particulars of strict Orthodox observance fill the Lubavitchers' lives. At the mikvah (ritual bath), in which a woman immerses herself after her menstrual period, dental floss and cotton swabs are provided for removal of the tiniest particles so purifying water will wash the entire body. One evening, Harris undergoes the first ritual bath of her life, an experience that produces a momentary touch of Hasidic ecstasy as memories well up of her grandmother and the two sons Harris has borne...
...make do with the ritual of public consideration by the press and the university and public apology by the professor, which after all, for people of reputation in a world of reputation, isn’t getting off scot free,” he wrote...
...enjoy coffee, beer and wine, pastries and pierogi (stuffed dumplings) at tables set out in the street. Klezmer Hois on Szeroka Street offers daily live Jewish music and such traditional cuisine as cholent (hearty stew) and pascha (a dessert with cream cheese and raisins) in a converted mikvah (ritual bath) furnished with antiques and lace tablecloths. Both venues will host gigs during the Festival of Jewish Culture (June 25-July 3; www.jewishfestival.pl/), which features the toe-tapping klezmer played in Europe from the 15th century, and songs in Yiddish, the language of East European and Russian Jews...